#gene

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#answer #background #basis #black #cultural

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

#ear #film #generate #know #make

I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film. But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#always #around #back #certainly #film

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them. ↗

— Gilbert White

#bull #country #destroyed #forests #general

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America. ↗

— Theodore White

#america #best #china #find #generally

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man. ↗

— William Allen White

#common man #generally #grafted #greatness #man

It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world. ↗

— George Whitefield

#book #find #generations #god #kinds

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced? ↗

— George Whitefield

#belong #christianity #duties #generally #how

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#consists #european #footnotes #general #philosophical

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#generates #good #itself #mathematical #mathematics